I have been saying for some time now that our dire federal financial condition is a national emergency that both Obama and Congress have chosen to ignore, chiefly for political expedience. 

For the last two budget cycles, a Democratically controlled congress has failed to put forth any budget at all, remarkable all by itself.  This year, Obama presented a budget proposal to congress that was so absurd on it's face that Obama could not stir even 1 vote for it in the Senate.  Not a single solitary vote.  Normally, this humiliation would be widely reported by the liberal press.....normally.  However, the liberal Golden Child must be protected at nearly all costs, so many major news outlets didn't bother to let their readership/viewership know that Obama's budget just disappeared, like it was put in a Harry Potter vanishing cabinet, never to be seen or heard of again.

In the meantime, the Republicans have been proposing a range of budget cuts.  Their first round of cuts was rather tepid, but their 2nd round of proposed cuts - a total of 4 trillion over 10 years (I hate that method of representation because it distorts the net reductions and makes them seem bigger than they really are).  While the Republicans have finally been proposing some meaty budget cuts, and have also waded into a place where few politicians have dared to tread - entitlement reform - the Democrats have been proposing either no or piddling cuts, and a whole host a new taxes.  The fiscal contrast between Republicans and Democrats could not be greater. 

All this while, the Republicans advancing budget cuts and no new taxes, and the Democrats proposing effectively no budget cuts and lots of new taxes, the federal government has been burning through paper money at a rate beyond alarming.  Everybody - Democrats, Republicans, and yes even our Golden Child President knew that at the current rate of burn, the government would have to raise the legal upper limit of the national debt ceiling, and they knew when they would need to do it.

Why then, is there a budget/debt ceiling crisis?  Why then all the doom and gloom headlines about the coming fiscal apocalypse?   If everybody knew this deadline was looming, why has this issue come to a head only now?  Because.  Obama wanted it.  At a recent news conference, which I heavily criticized, Obama sniffed at all this Congressional hub-bub and arrogantly declared that he was too busy 'doing Bin Laden' to be troubled by these pesky domestic matters, and chastised congress for it's lack of action.

Now comes the crisis, and all of a sudden, this is a crisis so great that the government is going to default on it's obligations, and old people are going to starve, and military people are going to bleed and die for love of country only, and give new meaning to the term 'all volunteer Army'.  Despite the fact that this is all more sophistry by our sophist President, if in fact this were all as true as the headlines blaze, then why didn't our supposedly brilliant President see the train coming and act to stop the train wreck?  Too busy 'doing Bin Laden'?  No.  He wasn't.

Obama is playing the nearly ultimate game of brinksmanship.  He thinks if he brings the country to the very brink of collapse, his adversaries will be forced to capitulate, and more or less cave to his socialist demands.  In many ways, this is a classic game if chicken.  

The Republicans must not swerve first.

According to a recent poll, only 22% of Americans want the debt ceiling raised.  Once again this is a curiously familiar percentage bracket, and it is not coincidence that it is relatively close to the number of Americans who align themselves as socialists.  The rest of us, however, say no.  The vast majority of Americans want Washington to get it's fiscal house in order.  Most of us understand that taxation, as a method to fund cancerous growth in the federal government is not the solution.  Most of us understand that when you don't have enough money, you have to stop spending what you don't have if you want to survive.  Most of us, however, does not include Barack Obama or the vast majority of Democrats sitting in office.

We still have more than a year to go before we have the opportunity to throw Obama and his thinly disguised Democratic hoodlums from office.  The future of the nation depends on Republicans standing up the the corner Bully and his gang and holding their ground.  The bully Obama has gone to the Republicans, and the nation at large, and said: 'Gimme me your money or I'll beat up your grandmother and your grandfather'.   And to bully politics, we must answer:

'Go ahead, make our day'.